Course, the article was, as expected, lengthy, but I expected a nice pic of the solar system in silhouette, so to say, with all the planets rowed up and all. What I didnt expect was that the 'dwarf planets' would be included.
Ok, so I'm like "Ok, these first four planets are the rocky planets, and those last four planets are our gassy planets. And these are our dwarf planets- Pluto, and-"
and I paused. Was someone pulling my leg? I've read about undetected sabotage in the wikipedia, could this be it? I mean, why was a perl hack which created Makefiles included in the names of the dwarf planets? Maybe an astronomer with a sense of humour? Nah, can't be. But still- it was there in front of me- a Dwarf planet called Makemake.
My son didn't really understand why I was suddenly so excited. I'm like- "wait, just a sec" and I looked up Makemake, and Ooooh! It was pronounced maké-maké. And it was "... the name of the creator of humanity and god of fertility in the mythos of the Rapanui, the native people of Easter Island ...".
Boy was I disappointed.
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